Re: latency & real-time-ness.

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Alan Cox wrote:

>>I'm running the program at nice -18.
>>So, what kind of things can I do to decrease the latency?
>>
>
> Hack up the ksoftirq stuff to only fall back to ksoftirqd after about
> 500 iterations instead of one is one little detail to deal with

Can someone expound slightly on this?

>
>
>>Would the low-latency patch help me?
>>
>
> Yes

Excellent, I'm compiling that now....

Thanks,
Ben

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